It has long been argued that the anticipations of some future event will impact current consumption and well-being in … model, by assuming that in addition to his own current consumption, an agentś current utility depends upon a reference … consumption level that is based on expected future consumption. Two alternative specifications of the anticipated future …

This paper presents a laboratory experiment that directly tests the theoretical predictions of consumption choices … under rational inattention. Subjects are asked to select consumption when income is random. They can optimally decide to … of the theory: 1) Subjects optimally make stochastic consumption choices; 2) They respond to incentives and changes in …

It has long been argued that the anticipations of some future event will impact current consumption and well-being in … model, by assuming that in addition to his own current consumption, an agent’s current utility depends upon a reference … consumption level that is based on expected future consumption. Two alternative specifications of the anticipated future …

business closures preclude regional relocation of offline consumption. …

Much of the literature on the effect of housing wealth on consumption has been embedded in a simple life-cycle model in … changes in consumption. However, this might constitute a fallacy of composition. Such models ignore that changes in housing … the classic Ando-Modigliani consumption function augmented by housing wealth can be deduced. It is shown that the deeper …